UPDATE of the diary that I published on July 15, 2019 in which I presented information from the Data for Progress analysis of the Green New Deal and how the published climate plans of presidential candidates addressed or acknowledged essential components of the GND plan. The new rubric was updated as of August 7, 2019 on which today’s diary is based. Links to individual candidate reports are included.
Data for Progress devised a rubric to score each candidates’ published plans (rather than legislative history or public statements). Those debate-eligible candidates whose climate plans are as yet unpublished (and will be evaluated after they are) include: Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Bill de Blasio, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, and Bernie Sanders.
NOTE: Candidates who have published written plans since my last diary on the Data for Progress Report are Kirsten Gillibrand and Tom Steyer. The two candidates who have withdrawn from the race are no longer included.
To determine the thoroughness of each candidate’s climate platform in addressing the features of the Green New Deal and allow for some basis for comparison, Data For Progress created a Candidate Climate Plan Summary for the debate-eligible Democratic candidates’ climate policy proposals to date.
Using a rubric of 48 essential Green New Deal components, we identify where each candidate 1) addressed a component with a proposed federal policy or action, 2) acknowledged a component but lacked clear policy details, or 3) did not include a component.
Scores for all nine candidates with published plans (48 GND essential components total)
Jay Inslee 42 addressed — 2 acknowledged
Tom Steyer 29 addressed — 9 acknowledged
Joe Biden 25 addressed — 8 acknowledged
Kirsten Gillibrand 22 addressed — 12 acknowledged
Elizabeth Warren 22 addressed — 8 acknowledged
Beto O’Rourke 20 addressed — 12 acknowledged
Michael Bennet 19 addressed — 7 acknowledged
Andrew Yang 8 addressed — 6 acknowledged
John Delaney 7 addressed — 5 acknowledged
NOTE: To view the Data for Progress report for a candidate, just click on their name above. To view the rubric delineating each essential component and compare candidate plans side-by-side, see below.
The Data for Progress Climate Plan Assessment for Governor Jay Inslee’s published plans was the only one among the published plans of the seven candidates that was scored as VERY THOROUGH--the top rating. Of the 48 essential components of the Green New Deal, Inslee’s plans addressed 42 of them and acknowledged 2 more.
Jay Inslee has also published his immigration plan (America’s Promise), union revitalization plan (Organizing for the American Dream), strengthening families (Putting Families First), and Stopping White Nationalism and Gun Violence) all of which are part of his comprehensive vision for America utilizing our climate crisis as an organizing principle.
Data for Progress listed the following plans as those they considered in their analysis of Jay Inslee’s plans:
100% Clean Energy for American Plan
Evergreen Economy Plan
Plan for Global Climate Mobilization
Freedom from Fossil Fuels
Call to Action for a Climate Conservation Corps
Ready for the Future
Community Climate Justice